September 4, 2019

One Suspect Apprehended, One at Large in Green Street Parking Garage Shooting

One individual has been transported by ambulance and another arrested following a shooting at a parking garage on Green Street on Wednesday morning. Police are still searching for the shooter himself.

At 9:40 a.m., police received reports of shots fired, Ithaca Police Department’s Deputy Chief of Police Vincent Monticello said. When officers arrived on the scene, they found a male victim in his thirties with multiple gunshot wounds. The victim is in treatment at a local hospital and has spoken with officers, Monticello said.

“My understanding [is] he is not from the area,” Monticello said.

Police have apprehended one suspect with knowledge of the incident, and to whom the gun was handed off to, Monticello said. “We’re talking to him,” he noted.

“And the person who we believe actually did the shooting, we’re still looking for him,” Monticello said. The suspect was wearing a black hoodie.

At 10:01 a.m., Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 tweeted that he was on-scene, and that one suspect was in custody.

There's been a shooting on Green Street outside the parking garage. On the scene now. A suspect is in custody. Avoid the area if possible.

Acting Ithaca Police Department Chief Dennis Nayor told reporters that there is nothing that would indicate any current public threat. According to Nayor, the shooter and suspect are both male. The suspect was taken into custody and the victim was transported via ambulance.

As a result of police activity, the Green Street Station TCAT bus stop was temporarily out of service, and the stop reopened at 11 a.m. Buses have begun to prepare to depart from the station.

The Green Street parking garage is currently taped off by police, and police cars bookend the garage entrance.

This article is a developing story, and continues to be updated.

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Sarah Skinner is the managing editor of the 137th Editorial Board and was an assistant news editor on the 136th Editorial Board. She can be reached at sskinner@cornellsun.com or via WhatsApp at 252-305-9030.

In an effort to address the tense student-police relations in Collegetown regarding the City of Ithaca Noise Ordinance, Ithaca Mayor Carolyn Peterson assembled a group to discuss the issue. In attendance were Ed Vallely, the new Ithaca Police Chief, Nancy Schuler (D-4th Ward), Mary Tomlan ’71 (D-3rd Ward), Svante Myrick ’09 (D-4th Ward) and Student Assembly President Ryan Lavin ’09.
According to Peterson, she called the meeting after Lavin ’09,came to a Common Council meeting to address the problems with the noise ordinance and deteriorating student-police relations.
According to the City of Ithaca Noise Ordinance, a noise violation can be issued when a party or social event produces disruptive noise that carries at least 25 feet.